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Companies can track your phone — unless you change these security settings. For big tech companies, data
is money. Their goal is to collect as much info about you as they can, and try as we might, there’s no surefire
way to shut them out entirely. There are steps you can take to limit what advertisers know about you, though.
It all starts with your Facebook settings. As consumers demand more privacy, tech companies — including
smartphone manufacturers — are slowly responding. Apple’s latest iPhone operating system, iOS 13, has
several new privacy settings you need to start using if you aren’t already. Apple has always made it possible to
disable location services for certain apps, but the controls are now more specific and customizable. Once you
download iOS 13, control your app location permissions by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
You’ll see a list of your apps there, and you can decide how often they get to use the location services. This
level of control will help keep your data safe, so make sure you use this feature ASAP.
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/companies-can-track-your-phone-unless-you-change-these-
security-settings

How Hackers Are Breaking Into Ring Cameras. Hackers have created dedicated software for breaking into Ring
security cameras, according to posts on hacking forums reviewed by Motherboard. The camera company is
owned by Amazon, which has hundreds of partnerships with police departments around the country. On
Wednesday, local Tennessee media reported that a hacker broke into a Ring camera installed in the bedroom
of three young girls in DeSoto County, Mississippi, and spoke through the device's speakers with one of the
children. The news highlights how although a higher level of protection for Ring accounts is available with two-
factor authentication, some users are not deploying it, and Ring is not forcing its deployment either, despite a
Ring camera potentially allowing a hacker to spy on sensitive conversations or locations. Motherboard found
several posts on different crime forums where hackers discuss creating tools for breaking into the Ring
accounts which are connected to cameras.

Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a88k5/how-hackers-are-breaking-into-ring-cameras

California Consumer Privacy Act Will Impose New Obligations on Businesses that Collect Consumer Data
from California Residents. the World’s seventh largest economy and a state that comprises roughly 40 million
people − state lawmakers have passed a new law that aims to protect the privacy of consumers, and
specifically details new notice requirements for those businesses that are collecting data from consumers on
the web or even through conventional means at their brick-and-mortar locations. On January 1, 2020, the
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect, granting an increased right of privacy to consumers
for the collection and sale of personal information. Similar bills have been proposed in Hawaii, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Washington. The new law gives consumers the right to ask
businesses what types and categories of information they are collecting, requires businesses to disclose their
purpose for collecting and selling the information, and provides consumers with a mechanism to exercise the
option to opt out of the collection and delete any of their personal information already collected. This new law
will, of course, affect as well the consumer product manufacturers that are collecting the personal information
of their California consumers for warranty purposes.
Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/california-consumer-privacy-act-will-impose-new-
obligations-businesses-collect

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